Saginaw Treaty
The Saginaw Treaty was concluded in 1819 between Lewis Cass , governor of Michigan Territory , and chiefs John Okemos , Wosso, and other Native American tribes of the Great Lakes (mainly the Anishinabe , but also the Ottawa and Potawatomi ) in what is now the United States form, completed. The Native Americans ceded a large stretch of land (over six million acres or 15,000 km²) in the central portion of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula .
The southern border ran a few miles northeast of Jackson west to the northeast Kalamazoo . From then on it went straight to the upper Thunder Bay River in the south-central part of Montmorency County and then along the river to the confluence with Thunder Bay near Alpena . From there it went to the international border between the United States and the British province of Upper Canada and then south to the border line created by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. This ran from the shore of Lake Huron in northeastern Sanilac County to the southwest to a point a few miles northeast of Lansing and then due south to the starting point.
The treaty also set some smaller tracts of land back within the ceded territory for the indigenous people.
Individual evidence
- ^ Treaty Between the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians . November 17, 1807. Retrieved August 3, 2013.